Chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says ‘turn the television off’ amid coronavirus crisis

[Jack]

From your link:

In principle, many hospital and academic labs around the country have the capability to carry out tests themselves. The PCR reaction uses so-called primers, short stretches of DNA, to find viral sequences. The CDC website posts the primers used in its test, and WHO publicly catalogs other primers and protocols, too. Well-equipped state or local labs can use these—or come up with their own—to produce what are known as a “laboratory-developed tests” for in-house use.
But at the moment, they’re not allowed to do that without FDA approval. When the United States declared the outbreak a public health emergency on 31 January, a bureaucratic process kicked in that requires FDA’s “emergency use approval” for any tests. “The declaration of a public health emergency did exactly what it shouldn’t have. It limited the diagnostic capacity of this country,” Mina says. “It’s insane.”

In short, the FDA is an unnecessary regulatory burden in this.

Looks like somebody needs to get a Plan together. What, it's been 2 months now? 'Sleep at the Wheel' is what it's called.

[Saudade]

Looks like somebody needs to get a Plan together. What, it's been 2 months now? 'Sleep at the Wheel' is what it's called.

I know how badly you want to blame this on Trump, but what we're seeing seems to be more of a symptom of how our regulatory agencies often harm more than help.

The FDA is often an organization that limits American consumers' choices far more than the equivalents in a lot of the rest of the world. Plenty of Europeans have access to drugs or treatments that work quite well that still don't have FDA approval due to archaic regulations or just red tape.

If you really want to fix the problem, we need regulatory reform.

[RB 60]

Looks like somebody needs to get a Plan together. What, it's been 2 months now? 'Sleep at the Wheel' is what it's called.

How long did China hide the severity of this virus? Care to answer that, Jack?

[Life is Golden]

Yet another Nattering Nanob of Negativity, used to think you were cool but now you've turned into Desh on steroids. Has it occurred to you that the virus has spread anywhere that's cold this time of year, probably not? Wuhan where it originally started, Japan, South Korea and Northern Italy are good examples. It will die out soon enough when the weather turns warmer. You live in New Orleans, has there been any cases there, be honest now, if that's possible?

In a month or two, this will all fizzle out. Just like the flu, and everything else. Much ado about nothing.

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(sigh) You know, I try to be nice and compassionate, ... but in YOUR case, a month from now when you come crawling back to the JPP Forum begging for money to get out of Thailand because it has become a Death Camp and you've spent all your money on masks and gloves and it still didn't help ... it's going to be extremely easy for me to find a small violin and begin playing it for you.

It's bad enough that stupid women like Polisquawker, CINNIcal BARstard and Loony Central can't stop.going hysterical but I expected better of you.

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(sigh) You know, I try to be nice and compassionate, ... but in YOUR case, a month from now when you come crawling back to the JPP Forum begging for money to get out of Thailand because it has become a Death Camp and you've spent all your money on masks and gloves and it still didn't help ... it's going to be extremely easy for me to find a small violin and begin playing it for you.

There have been 40 cases total, all foreigners apart from 13 Thais who either contracted from Chinese tourists or people who went to China. There haven't been any new cases for 3 days, instead of being so negative, how about you welcome that? You probably exposed yourself to far more dangerous diseases in the knocking shops in Nawlins, amirite?

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In a month or two, this will all fizzle out. Just like the flu, and everything else. Much ado about nothing.

Of course, some people are terrified of their own shadows.

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hahahahahaha ...

"Mick Mulvaney has a great suggestion for protecting you and your family from a looming coronavirus crisis: “Turn the television off.”
The White House chief of staff told a right-wing political convention Friday that the media is only hyping the global health threat to “takedown” President Trump."
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...55i-story.html

Man! (shaking head) I'm pretty sure these idiots don't have a Plan. I think we're all on are own on this one.

You are always on your own. What do you think they can do to protect you?

You sound like a child

PS

There is no crisis. Where do you see a crisis? You want one for political reasons. But there isn’t one. Thanks for making my prediction come true. You never disappoint. Do you get a flu shot every year?

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"Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely?"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...y-soon-improve

"The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing—but things may soon improve"

Do you badly want to be tested?

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Their plan is to ignore the virus and hope it goes away. It's the ostrich strategy.

Do you get a flu shot every year

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Jack: "Question: 'Would you go to a Hospital if you felt you might have contracted the virus if you knew you were going to be hit with a Large Medical Bill?'.'

All I was asking was about the cost factor. How many people in the US can't afford to go to a Hospital because of the cost.
My point, if someone has the coronavirus, they are NOT going to a Hospital, they are going to keep walking around and infecting other people.
Without some 'Free Clinic' where you can get tested at 'No Charge', no one is going to go to a Hospital.

Your thought process is completely fucked up. The symptoms are non specific and mild. Getting tested doesn’t make one less contagious. Even if they go to the hospital they are still risking infecting other people. You are trying to create panic

do you get a flu shot every year

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1. It has to be 'Free'.
2. The idea would be to isolate or quarantine the Infected.
3. The Death Rate could be reduced.

You want to reduce our 0% death rate to what? You want a negative death rate from COVID19 in the US?

me thinks you can’t wait for the first person to die in the US from COVID19. It will be like a mass shooting in an elementary school to you fucks

Here is something to think about. Most everyone who has died has been elderly, sick and had underlying comorbid conditions. For some they have have dies from COVID19 or they may have died with it. I know that is too much for you to process. You just want to blame Trump

Don’t worry there will be another manufactured crisis for you to wring your hands over after this passes

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Where's the 'Test Kit'. (I think we already addressed the lack of 'Test Kits' here in the US)

And nobody has died.

Does that make you sad

[Darth Omar]

1. Do you recognize that there is a Problem? Or is China just 'making a Mountain out of a Mole Hill'?
2. Do you think the Pension Funds and Insurance Companies that hold much of the Stock traded on the NYSE Exchange don't really know much and are just 'overreacting'?

Would hardly be a first if they are lol?

It’s absolutely a problem. Just not one of the ‘omg, we’re all gonna die!’ variety. The hype has gotten ahead of the facts and THAT has had a lot to do with the stock market jitters. Though the market was due for a correction since it’s been going up steadily since Inauguration Day. The flu hype triggered something that was due to happen anyway.

[Earl]

It's bad enough that stupid women like Polisquawker, CINNIcal BARstard and Loony Central can't stop.going hysterical but I expected better of you.

Indeed.

Some cheered the losses in the stock market.

PoliTalker:

"Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.

We're going down.

BZZZZZT! BZZZZZT! BZZZZZT!

Dive! Dive! Dive!"

Cheering on a stock market drop than could harm millions of Americans, putting food on the table, trillions in market value.